Troubles in jp-kernelnewbies list

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:58:11 -0500
Rik van Riel <riel at surriel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:02:04 +0900
> KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> 
> > Could you confirm the configuration of mailman that hosts jp-kernelnewbies list.
> > It does not deliver and archive any messages well.
> 
> > Do you have any idea?
> 
> Over Christmas I spent a few days looking at the system, but
> I have not found anything yet.  I did turn on some more debugging
> options, so future messages to the mailing list could show me
> what is going on.

OK, the problem is stranger than I imagined.

After rebooting my dom0 (the mailing list runs in a Xen guest),
crond stopped running cronjobs in the Xen guest.  Once I restarted
crond (and exim, out of paranoia) logrotate started running again
and the mail queue started being pushed out.

I have no idea yet what causes crond to stop running after a dom0
reboot (and guest save/restore), but will be looking into it...

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